The Measurement Of Stock Development

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The Measurement of Stock Development
There are three variables that help measure the stock development in a country; Stock market capitalization to nominal GDP, Stock traded to nominal GDP, Turnover ratio.
First, with respect to measuring the stock market development, Stock trading (stock traded to nominal GDP) can be used. A rapid increase in the trading volume/value of security on an exchange is indicative of interest in the security or the market. The trading volume and value is an important indicator of the level of liquidity, the efficiency of the infrastructural facilities of a stock market and the investment culture of the populace. Liquidity is the ease with which a security is converted into cash. The activities of portfolio managers, pension funds manager, and unit trust managers are capable of stimulating trading and improving liquidity. The level of awareness of investors and the number of listings could have favorable impact on the trading volume. The market float which is the proportion of number of shares available for trading is another influencing factor on trading activities.
Second, Market capitalization is perhaps the most important criterion in assessing the size of a capital market. Market capitalization equals to stock market capitalization divided by nominal GDP. To assess how big a stock market is within the national economy, the market capitalization is usually compared with the nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This depicts the saying that capital market is a barometer with which to measure the state of a national economy. For individual quoted Companies, the size of market capitalization is an indicator of the market value (i.e. investor’s perception or assessment) of the Company. Thus ma...
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...ael Todaro sees three objectives of development.
Producing more ‘life sustaining’ necessities such as food, shelter, and health care and broadening their distribution
Raising standards of living and individual self esteem
Expanding economic and social choice and reducing fear
The UN has developed a widely accepted set of indices to measure development against a mix of composite indicators. UN’s Human Development Index (HDI) measures a country’s average achievements in three basic dimensions of human development:
Life expectancy
Educational attainment
Adjusted real income ($PPP per person).
UN’s Human Poverty Index (HPI) measures deprivation
The percent of people expected to die before age 40
The percent of illiterate adults
The percent of people without access to health services and safe water
The percent of underweight children under five.

Research on measurements of current well-being and sustainability as a complement to or substitute for GDP is widespread and diverse. Whereas some authors focused on modest corrections to GDP, others have developed completely new indices based on entirely different data. In general, there are three types of measurements that were developed since the introduction of GDP: subjective measures of well-being, composite indices and monetary approaches. Subjective measures are based on surveys about the

production input is embodied knowledge and skills in human capital, not physical capital stock. In a similar vein, Romer (1990) argues that regions with a high level of human capital can produce a higher growth of knowledge and output. However, the source of externality is the stock of knowledge not human capital. In summary, the most conspicuous point of new growth theory is that knowledge leads to economic development.
Because of the difficulty that knowledge and human capital cannot be easily measured

economists around whether financial development causes economic growth or growth is followed by other factors. To understand this relationship many researchers have focused on the impact of banks in the financial market on economic growth. The basic idea of financial development and economic growth was raised by Schumpeter (1912) who argued that the ability of financial sector in financing the entrepreneur’s innovation will lead to growth.
Opponents of this idea argue that stock markets are not effective

contaminating water sources by mobilizing through rainfall, disrupting habitats and impacting organisms by acting as an endocrine disruptor. The research specifically described in this article is how continued Atrazine exposure affects the reproductive development of a male population of African clawed frogs. This research explores the issue of atrazine exposure contributing to the generation of sex reversed frogs in a male population. The article addresses previous studies where Atrazine had no significant

goods movement that is used to post goods received from external vendors or from in–plant production. All goods receipts result in an increase of stock in the warehouse.
Goods Issue – Goods issue from the Warehouse Management System (WMS) is the physical issue of goods or materials from the warehouse. Goods issue posting results in a decrease in stock in the warehouse.
In WMS, you post a goods issue for the following business transactions:
a. Delivery of goods to customers
b. Material staging

either government owned or family-owned, most of which was funded through state budget, and as a result reduced the need for financing. In the recent past, Saudi Arabia has focused on a careful measurement for structural developments and regulatory changes. However, different phases of historical development of the capital market which can be classified into three phases; pre-industrialization phase, post industrialization phase and growth phase that sparked changes and shaped the kingdom 's capital

money. However, finance is needed for so much more! The finance industry deals with starting businesses, developing new products, expanding markets, as well as everyday things like saving for retirement, purchasing a home, and even insurance. The stock market, asset allocation, portfolio analysis, and electronic commerce are all key aspects in finance. In this paper, I will explain how these features play a vital role in the industry, along with the issues that come with these factors.
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in financial statement?
Moreover, As Samuelson (1996) point out, “the definition confuses definition with measurement. He argued that the future benefits are a measurement attribute, not a defining characteristic of asset itself. The term "economic benefits" can be understood either in a financial sense or a non-financial sense, which confuses the definition of assets with the measurement of assets.
According to IASB agenda(2006), they thinks the IASB’s definitions have wrong focus on identifying

growth.
3. Private investment in Research and Development is the most important source of technological progress
4. Knowledge or technical advances are non-rival good.
In Romar’s new growth theory, the savings rate affects the long run economic growth because in this framework, a higher level of savings and capital formation allows for greater investment in human capital and Research and development (since Private investment in Research and Development is the most important source of technological

Romanian companies listed at Bucharest Stock Exchange and found that board independence and board size are factors that influence the level of environmental reporting within Romanian companies.
Another study that has been conducted related to the environmental disclosure was the study on relationship between size of company and the extent of environmental disclosure among Greek companies. Galani, Gravas and Stavropoulos (2011) found that the degree of development of environmental reporting practices